“Sun to Begin Close Sourcing MySQL” screamed the headline on Slashdot last night. The
headline is not entirely accurate (although slightly more
accurate than the bizarre statement that “Sun has had a very poor
history of actually open sourcing anything”).

So what is going on at MySQL? To get to the bottom of that you
have to weave together a number of posts and comments from a
number of sources. First the article behind the Slashdot
headline:

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